Mythical truths for clinical practice

Mistaken, misshapen and mythical images of nurse education: creating a shared identity for clinical nurse educator practice.

The hospital-based clinical nurse educator is pivotal to the integration of formal learning and clinical practice. Clinical nurse educators are generally considered to be expert nurses within a particular clinical environment; however, many of those who are expert clinicians suffer some loss of identity when assuming clinical teaching roles. It is necessary to facilitate the expression of ident...

Inconvenient truths about effective clinical teaching.

I’ve been teaching clinical medicine for more than 30 years but it seems to be getting harder, not easier. Conventional wisdom in the USA holds that the problem is time and money (or, more precisely: time is money). Hospitalised patients, discharged before doctors can get to know them, are sicker and quicker today. Outpatient teaching is no less awkward, 10-minute offi ce visits and outdated Me...

Quantitative Dengue Test: Is it Practical for Clinical Practice?

Clinical Practice Guidelines: Principles for Clinical Practice

S5 print and electronic media where they come across lay guidelines; doctors need to inform the patients regarding available treatment alternatives, their potential harms and benefits, where clinical guidelines work as the best available educative tool. CPGs highlight gaps in known literature where treatment recommendations are not clear cut; hence it helps in identifying areas where future res...

The Mythical Dream Interface

This paper presents a language-based method for analyzing and redesigning a user interface. The underlying theory and a practical application of the theory are presented. The practical application involves presenting an analysis and possible redesign of the user interface of the Macintosh version of the Personal Ancestral File (PAF) genealogical program.